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Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. Little is known of his early life, but he worked as a seaman and then a sailing entrepreneur. He became obsessed with the possibility of pioneering a western sea route to Cathay (China), India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia. At the time, Europeans knew no direct sea route to southern Asia, and the route via Egypt and the Red Sea was closed to Europeans by the Ottoman Empire, as were many land routes. Contrary to popular legend, educated Europeans of Columbus’ day did believe that the world was round, as argued by St. Isidore in the seventh century. However, Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world’s size, calculating that East Asia must lie approximately where North America sits on the globe (they did not yet know that the Pacific Ocean existed).
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The battle of Stalingrad prevented Germany from successfully gaining control of Moscow.
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Germany's failure to capture Stalingrad ultimately led to Germany's failure to capture Moscow and defeat the Soviet Union. Capturing Stalingrad would've given Germany access to the USSR's oil supply, giving the Germans the upper hand against fighting the Russians. They weren't able to successfully capture and had to back off from the offensive.
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